Lighting a fire
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Lighting a fire
Jose Feliciano performed a rockin' version of the Star Spangled Banner tonight before the first game of the National League Championship Series (sigh) in San Francisco. It felt like closing a loop to watch it. In my first year as a baseball fan -- 1968, when I was 9 -- Feliciano was asked to sing the National Anthem before the World Series at Detroit's Tiger Stadium, and when he did his soulful, very non-tradional version, it caused a national uproar. This was the year of the RFK and MLK assassinations, the Tet offensive, and riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and now people thought the counter-culture was invading baseball. Nothing was safe!
You can read the fairly amazing backstory here. Now it's 2012, and no one says "boo" about the same version. A sign that we've come a long way, baby. Or is it...just San Francisco being San Francisco. The final bizarre kicker is that I suspect the Cardinals and Tigers will meet again in the World Series -- a 1968 re-match.
Programming note: I'm taking a well-deserved day off tomorrow. See you Tuesday for Debate Night in America.
Comments (94)
Right, right - its the double speak out of the State Dept. that is "turning this into a scandal" -- that's --- AWESOME. Has nothing to do with the right wing talking heads. Rush sayeth, me follow. That's the mantra. The admin. is covering their you know whats. The system in place failed. Did it have to do with having mercenaries securing the compound? I don't know. Its amazing how lame the "stated it was due to an internet movie" has become. Its mentioned because the protests due to the movie were a cover. It allowed infiltration. Oye ve. We really are a nation of skinny fat dunderheaded monkeys.— Murrayman- "a "watered-down" version of the proud nation we used to be? When the anthem starts being sung in English and then a Spanish version, (which may soon happen) it speaks volumes about where we're headed." Perhaps a right winger can help create a spurious correlation here, between the rise of the use of Spanish in this once proud nation and a bunch of negative trends, poverty perhaps? Once again we're subjected to a Christian right-wing type speaking of 'pride', that most popular of deadly sins.— Murrayman
- Get over it Murrayman...your hyperbole is run of the mill for a drone. Maybe a stint in the military and on the front line would make you see things differently. If pride in one's country is a "sin" as you babble, then consider me "guilty".
— dogman5 - A bit late, pal! The U.S. Bureau of Education published an "official" Spanish version of the Star Spangled Banner in 1919. — DonQ
- Actually Murray, I saw the grieving, crying mother, who has been begging for answers, on the Anderson Cooper show. I Didn't know Anderson Cooper was a Republican. I'll try to remember that.— Phishface
- Phish that is a stunningly ineffective response -- but I'm not surprised. How was it you came about watching the daytime Anderson Cooper show?— Murrayman
Sure Phish, it's the "crying, grieving mother" you're worried about...— wokmaster- "He then spoke in front of the UN two weeks later and stated 9 times it was due to an Internet movie." . . . . . That speech helped defuse a time bomb in the Middle East surrounding the film, neutralizing what the Benghazi attackers apparently had hoped to spark by their raid of the consulate on the day the protests erupted. Also, you haven't seen any bin Laden videos or recordings surface since the attack to rally for jihad, have you? What could have been a foreign policy nightmare bringing the middle east to a virtual hault, has turned into nothing more than a bump in the road.— montani semper liberi
- "Phish that is a stunningly ineffective response" and you are a stunnigly moronic poster— Phishface
- It may be a "bump in the road" to the Obama administration and you mentally simple liberal but there is a sodomized and murdered ambassador the begs to differ.— Phishface
- Murray, this ones for you. I thought that was you on I-95 the other night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPWHfrU3PSQ— Phishface - "Its amazing how lame the "stated it was due to an internet movie" has become. Its mentioned because the protests due to the movie were a cover. It allowed infiltration. Oye ve."
Except there was no protest, which the State Dept has already admitted...why are you still trying to peddle the BS protest story that's been 100% debinked, murry? You're a lowlife, fraud.
http://news.yahoo.com/state-dept-reveals-details-benghazi-attack-062900114.html— bp*philly - *debunked— bp*philly
- "Its amazing how lame the..."
No, what's amazing is how you continue to spew the orginal BS that the State Dept has already been forced to walk back.
How would you prefer to be addressed: clown, or lackey?— bp*philly - "How would you prefer to be addressed: clown, or lackey?"
BP,
Please watch the youtube video and you'll find your answer to how Murray is to be addressed— Phishface
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